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The article focuses on the anti-democracy and anti-equality views of the right-wing think tank Claremont Institute. Topics discussed are role of Claremont Institute in the evolution of the right-wing toward authoritarianism and extremism, redefinition of national identity and rise of the woke elite, platform provided by Claremont Institute for white nationalists and racist theorists, and intellectual origin story of the Claremont Institute that started with Harry Victor Jaffa and Leo Strauss.

The article discusses pseudonymous Cato, who many believe was New York Governor George Clinton, held that republics should be small, because larger territories allowed for greater wealth to be accumulated, which would eventually lead to the regime's demise. And, anyway, he wrote, The extent of many of the states of the Union, is at this time almost too great for the superintendence of a republican form of government.

The article discusses employee ownership of companies in the U.S. within the context of the perspective of presidential candidates competing in the 2020 Democratic primary election and inequality in the country. The author discusses political right-wing claims that employee stock own ownership plan (ESOP) are prone to bankruptcy.

The article discusses scholars of the United States had already begun noting how returning Vietnam veterans were key players in the white nationalist movements of the 1970s and 1980s. But it took us too long to notice that the new white nationalist groups since the war on terrorism began were also often populated by war on terrorism veterans. Just as we had learned to accept school shootings, we learned to live with car bombs.

The article discusses the issue of racism in the U.S. during disasters like the COVID-19 pandemic. Also cited are the effects of the coronavirus to white Americans, how African Americans are allegedly discriminated during disasters, and the signs of inequalities in the country, including the higher rate of infection of majority-African American counties than majority-white counties.